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Before Lewis and Clark relates the extraordinary saga of the Chouteaus, the dynastic family that guarded the gates to the West for three generations. From their St. Louis base, the Chouteaus, patrician and French in their origins, made their fortunes along the two-thousand-mile length of the Missouri River. Led by the brothers Auguste and Pierre, the family not only engaged in land speculation, finance, and the fur trade but also acted as suppliers and advisers to expeditions and enterprises between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains—including the famous expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from 1804 to 1806.
This is the story of the Old World meeting the New, of the eastern United States discovering the West, and of a wealthy, powerful, charming, and manipulative family that dominated business and politics in the Louisiana Purchase territory before and after the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Contents
Map: Chouteau CountryLaclède-Chouteau Family Tree1. Among a People of Strange Speech2. The First Generation: Pierre Laclède Liguest3. Haughty Children of the Middle Waters4. The Business of St. Louis5. Auguste and Pierre, Greatly Loved and Greatly Feared6. New Rulers, New Ways7. Intrigues and Possibilities8. Enveloped in a Cloud of Miseries9. Dreaming Big--and Stumbling10. The Third Generation11. Auguste and Pierre: Men of Property12. Pierre Jr.: Gentle Creole, Driven Tycoon13. A. P. Chouteau: Star-Crossed Hero14. François and Bérénice: Together to a New Place15. Pierre Jr.: Position, Advantage, and Perhaps VanityEpilogueNotesAcknowledgmentsIndex
